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TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATION
Technology and Digital are

the Bases of National Policy

The importance of technology in the new century can also be gauged from
the fact that even the last person in the queue in the country became a direct
beneficiary of government schemes. Science and technology has become such
a tool of India's development that initiatives like administrative reforms, curbing
corruption, tax transparency, Digital India, DBT-JAM trinity, self-certification,
etc. have brought revolutionary changes. This has ensured the realization of
projects pending for decades ranging from changes in the field of farmers-
women empowerment, and education to defense modernization, labor reforms,
agricultural reforms, and so on...

f the 20th century was shaped by political digital entrepreneurs are emerging in every corner
superpowers, the 21st century will be largely of the country, in every village. With the help of
Iled by technology superpowers. The first technology, our small entrepreneurs are able to
Prime Minister to be born in independent India sell their products in every nook and corner of the
wrote such a script of good governance with country.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is believed
this progressive mantra that the country's to belong to the school of thought that believes in
development journey not only surprised the confronting problems head-on.
world with its fast pace but also raised India's The way he has adopted digital technology, no
prestige in international forums. It is the result other leader has done it. There is much evidence
of the better use of technology that the country's of the way he has used it in politics and policy.
progress did not stop even during a pandemic like Technology is at the core of the success of
Covid, despite the lockdown, food grains reached the current Central Government schemes. The
the homes of the poor. Today in India, the way importance of linking schemes with technology
optical fiber is reaching every village, the cost can also be understood from the fact that such
of mobile and mobile data has come down, and projects which were pending for decades are
it has become very easy to get information. New being realized which earlier seemed impossible.

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